Homemade Baby Food Recipes

Many people don't know that they can make their own homemade baby food, they choose to buy baby food through local grocery stores.

Of course, most of you who are reading this are aware that you can make your own baby food. Though, you're not really sure are you?

You're not even sure if making baby food has a lot of advantages. To set things straight, there are many advantages if you choose to prepare food for your baby on your own.

Why Choose HomeMade Baby Food?

There are many advantages when choosing to make your own baby food. First of all, it's relatively cheaper for you than the average commercial products you buy in local stores. Brands like Gerber, Heinz, Beech Nut, and Earth's Best tend to be a little too expensive.

Making your own homemade baby food makes things easier for you as well because they can be eaten by older children too.

Some commercially prepared baby foods are added with additional preservatives, artificial flavors, food coloring, extra salt and sugar, and these tend to be a little too much.

Though you can check on the ingredients list on the food labels, there's still no guarantee if the component list is complete. This one thing alone, makes making your own baby food even more advantageous than the grocery products. In this way, you are sure that what you are feeding your baby is entirely healthy.

Basic Homemade Baby Food Recipes

Here're a few basic homemade baby food recipes for that little person. These are very easy to do as well as being relatively cheaper for you to maintain financially than the average brand name baby food product. This will be a growing list of homemade baby food recipes. The formats begin with a bulleted list of the ingredients, and then followed by how to proceed.

Apple Pear Dessert

• Two cooking apples
• One pear
• One egg yolk
• Half a teaspoon of lemon juice
• One teaspoon of brown sugar
• One teaspoon of apple juice (or water)
• A dash of ground cinnamon

Peel the apples, and remove the core. Do this with the pear too. Cut the pear and apples into small pieces of cubes. Mix them with the lemon juice and apple juice (or water). Place the entire mixture in a saucepan. Let it simmer until it gets soft (basically around 20 minutes).

Puree the fruit, or mash it if you like. Mix with the egg yolk until it gets smooth. Bake the entire mixture at around 350 degrees F and wait for around 15 minutes. When you're done, let it cool awhile before serving it.

Banana Oatmeal Breakfast

• 1/4 cup of rolled oats
• Half a cup of milk (breast milk, or formula)
• A third of a whole banana
• 1/4 cup of milk (or breast milk, or formula)

This one's for the 8-month-old baby. To begin, mix the rolled oats and the half a cup milk together. Boil the mixture and let simmer for around 5 minutes, while occasionally stirring.

Mash the banana and mix with the 1/4 cup of milk. When the oatmeal is done simmering, combine it with the banana mixture. Serve and watch your baby devour it.

Vegetable Puree

• One potato (or parsnip, or carrot, or turnip)
• Four to five tablespoons milk (breast milk or formula)

Peel the potato (or whichever vegetable you choose). Steam for maybe 10 minutes until you're sure it's soft enough. Press the veggie through a sieve. Mix with the milk. You can choose water as an alternative for the milk. Puree the vegetables with either a food processor or blender.